Yes despite taking all the precautions recommended by doctors, travel guide books, natural remedy information etc, I succumbed to The Bangalore Belly Bug (thankfully on the final three days of the month-long visit to India). It serves me right too. People had warned me that few escape this. But I had just been smugly thinking of how impressed people will be when they learn of my success in getting away with that!
Sweats, shivers, headache, nausea and exhaustion were just the warm-up! Then Stage 2 came out to play – bed to bathroom to bed. I was so grateful for the lovely en suite room at my friend’s Bangalore home. I bet they were also glad not to be sharing a bathroom with ME!
So two and a half days with no appetite is something we sometimes long for when desiring to lose that couple of extra kilos. Right? But this was not a pleasant way to do so. Especially when the taxi arrives to take me the 75 minute ride to the airport and I’m STILL on the throne having already taken two anti diarrhoea tablets an hour before!! And feeling weak, worried and wobbly from not eating much for two days, how on earth was I going to manage the stressful 24 hour, taxi- plane-plane-taxi-train-bus-train-car journey home to Spain!?
I bid farewell to my concerned hosts who had the quietest of houseguests over these few days. Babu, their regular and friendly driver stopped at a tiny roadside druggist for me. Little English was spoken but THE one important symptom repeated a few times, together with my white and anxious face, must have given enough clues to my desperate needs. A few yellow capsules were handed over. No packet or instructions but I was panicked and past being picky. I asked, “How many should I take?” “One.” he replied. “One per hour?” I queried. He looked puzzled at my question. I repeated it. “One”, he confirmed, still looking bemused. So “one” was taken. And….it did indeed work!!!
So my dear travelling friend. The name is Eldoper, (Loperamide Hydrochloride), otherwise known as a bowel paralizer.
NB This is NOT an advert or recommendation
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